Abstract

For petroleum process design, understanding the risks of the possibility of fires is necessary. Also understanding fire phenomena and parameters affecting fire are important for safety designing. In this research, the effect of changing the diameter of the container, additive property, fuel type on the flame height and flame temperature are measured. Experimental results show that the container diameter and fuel type have direct influence on the flame height and also adding impurities influence flame height and fuel temperature. Of the ash and sawdust impurities, sawdust impurity has direct impact on flame height and flame temperature. Statistical findings with SPSS demonstrated that there was a significant relationship between changing the container diameter and flame height, flame temperature and also fuel temperature. According to the statistical findings of the effect of fuel type on flame height, flame temperature and fuel temperature , there was a significant relationship between fuel type and three variables of flame height, flame temperature and fuel temperature. Increasing additives and also changing the concentration of additives did not have much effect on flame height and fuel temperature but it showed a significant difference among flame temperature, additives and concentration changing.